{"id":41414,"date":"2018-08-19T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/ubisoft_will_not_release_rainbow_six_siege_on_the_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2018-08-19T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:10:00","slug":"ubisoft-will-not-release-rainbow-six-siege-on-the-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/19\/ubisoft-will-not-release-rainbow-six-siege-on-the-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Will Not Release Rainbow Six Siege On The Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b9d1879a2f2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b9d1879a2f2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Rainbow Six Seige\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b9d1879a2f2\/rainbow-six-seige.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47b9d1879a2f2\/rainbow-six-seige.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Six Seige\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has previously said the French-based company is a big fan of Nintendo and its new system. It has already released <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the platform and will soon launch <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/starlink_battle_for_atlas\">Starlink: Battle for Atlas<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0with the Switch version featuring <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/star_fox\">Star Fox<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As rosy as the current relations between Ubisoft and Nintendo\u00a0are, one recurring question is if the Switch will ever receive games like <strong>Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/strong> and <strong>Rainbow Six<\/strong>. During a chat with\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/08\/18\/ubisoft-says-rainbow-six-siege-not-possible-on-nintendo-switch-7854659\/\">Metro GameCentral<\/a>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/tom_clancys_rainbow_six_siege\">Rainbow Six Siege<\/a><\/strong> brand director Alexandre Remy was asked if the team-based first-person shooter would ever come to the Nintendo Switch. This was his reply: \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[It\u2019s] not possible with the technical constraint and especially the frame rate of the game; 60 frames per second plus destruction is a bit CPU heavy and Switch is not yet the Nintendo console where it\u2019ll be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows on from last week when the <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/assassins_creed_odyssey\">Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> game director Scott Phillips revealed he would port the game to the Switch if he had the programming skills to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Ubisoft <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/ubisoft_has_halted_development_of_steep_on_nintendo_switch\">revealed<\/a> it had halted development on the Switch version of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/steep\">Steep<\/a><\/strong>, and before then <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/ubisoft_is_releasing_two_hand-drawn_adventures_on_switch_later_this_year\">announced<\/a> it was releasing two hand-drawn titles from 2014 on the device.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think Ubisoft will ever release any of its bigger game series on the Switch?\u00a0Are you happy with its current offerings on the system? Tell us below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has previously said the French-based company is a big fan of Nintendo and its new system. It has already released Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle\u00a0on the platform and will soon launch Starlink: Battle for Atlas\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0with the Switch version featuring Star Fox. As rosy as the current relations between Ubisoft and Nintendo\u00a0are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}